As a lifelong Baltimore resident, I was dismayed to hear Commissioner Anthony Batts' negative opinion of race relations in our city ("Baltimore leaders agree: City has a race problem," March 14).
Yes, Baltimore has many problems, but we also have seen growth and progress in the last two decades.
The commissioner should focus on the job he was hired to do instead of going about the country airing Baltimore's problems to the rest of the nation. I would think that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake would want the people that work for her to present a positive image of Baltimore. We need leaders who unite, not divide.
Joanne Lippy, Baltimore